Re: [Apertium-stuff] Google Translate API shutting down

2011-05-29 Thread Keld Jørn Simonsen
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 12:11:54PM +0100, Jimmy O'Regan wrote: > 2011/5/29 Juan Antonio Pérez Ortiz : > > > > This is a very strange movement. Abuse? Google has the tools to restrict > > access to its APIs whenever they want! > > http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2590551 > "I think the "abuse" t

Re: [Apertium-stuff] Google Translate API shutting down

2011-05-29 Thread Jimmy O'Regan
2011/5/29 Juan Antonio Pérez Ortiz : > > This is a very strange movement. Abuse? Google has the tools to restrict > access to its APIs whenever they want! http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2590551 "I think the "abuse" they are referring to is the common practise among blackhats of using Google T

Re: [Apertium-stuff] Google Translate API shutting down

2011-05-29 Thread Juan Antonio Pérez Ortiz
This is a very strange movement. Abuse? Google has the tools to restrict access to its APIs whenever they want! Probably, programmers will move to Bing Translator or wait for Google to offer a new non-free API. They could also use Apertium API (http::// api.apertium.org), but I guess the amount of